The Egyptian Book of the Dead

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The Egyptian Book of the Dead 36

Driving Away Apshait

English · E. A. Wallis Budge

Driving Away Apshait [From the Papyrus of Nu (British Museum No. 10,477, sheet 8).]

The Chapter of driving away Apshait. Osiris Nu, the chancellor-in-chief, triumphant, saith:

English · E. A. Wallis Budge

“Depart from me, O thou that hast lips which gnaw, for I am Khnemu, the lord of Peshennu, and [I] bring the words of the gods to Ra, and I report [my] message to the lord thereof.”

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The Book of the Dead, tr. E. A. Wallis BudgeTranslation · English · E. A. Wallis Budge, 1901

E. A. Wallis Budge's translation (1901). Budge's readings of Egyptian are outdated in many places, and names follow his spellings (Tem for Atum, for example). Square brackets are his additions.

The Book of the Dead according to the Theban Recension, translated by E. A. Wallis Budge, in Egyptian Literature, ed. Epiphanius Wilson (New York: Colonial Press, 1901). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread by English Wikisource volunteers; chapter numbers from Budge's The Book of the Dead: An English Translation (1901). · Source ↗

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